A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
No place like home: temporary urban garden
Pioneered by Scott Brownrigg, and conceived in collaboration with Dr Ivana Wingham, senior lecturer at The University of Brighton, the No Place like Home series aims to explore the design of public space by using a series of week-long experimental research installation projects to engage the architectural community, academics and the public in a debate on what makes a public space. The installations are designed by several academics, architects and artists and focus on four European cities – Athens, London, Tallinn and Milan exploring how history, personal or public boundaries, narratives and cultural preconceptions might be used as design tools to transform a public space. In our times of a global economy, global networking and global architecture, the installations examined our specific, individual encounters with these global cities challenging the notion that ‘public space is leaving home’. Each installation was launched by public debate in which architects, academics and public responded to a given theme. These installations also transformed Scott Brownrigg’s minimally designed private reception space into an extension of the London street in Covent Garden and turned it into a temporary public gallery. The origin of the idea conceived by Dr Ivana Wingham and Alun Moreton, Scott Brownrigg associate was ‘a response to the simplistic and negative tone of the Prince Charles vs Richard Rogers debate over Chelsea Barracks, but also a dissatisfaction with the level of communication between architectural educational institutions and the general public’ as mentioned in the recent Blueprint article entitled ‘25 who will change architecture and design in 2010’ (January 2010). The article further emphasized the opportunities for change suggesting that ‘ the commercial architectural practice need not work at a distance from the theoretical, academic research’. The first installation in the ‘No Place Like Home’ series, Temporary Urban Garden by Dr Ivana Wingham and in collaboration with Dr Roderick Lumsden IT consultant ...
No place like home: temporary urban garden
Pioneered by Scott Brownrigg, and conceived in collaboration with Dr Ivana Wingham, senior lecturer at The University of Brighton, the No Place like Home series aims to explore the design of public space by using a series of week-long experimental research installation projects to engage the architectural community, academics and the public in a debate on what makes a public space. The installations are designed by several academics, architects and artists and focus on four European cities – Athens, London, Tallinn and Milan exploring how history, personal or public boundaries, narratives and cultural preconceptions might be used as design tools to transform a public space. In our times of a global economy, global networking and global architecture, the installations examined our specific, individual encounters with these global cities challenging the notion that ‘public space is leaving home’. Each installation was launched by public debate in which architects, academics and public responded to a given theme. These installations also transformed Scott Brownrigg’s minimally designed private reception space into an extension of the London street in Covent Garden and turned it into a temporary public gallery. The origin of the idea conceived by Dr Ivana Wingham and Alun Moreton, Scott Brownrigg associate was ‘a response to the simplistic and negative tone of the Prince Charles vs Richard Rogers debate over Chelsea Barracks, but also a dissatisfaction with the level of communication between architectural educational institutions and the general public’ as mentioned in the recent Blueprint article entitled ‘25 who will change architecture and design in 2010’ (January 2010). The article further emphasized the opportunities for change suggesting that ‘ the commercial architectural practice need not work at a distance from the theoretical, academic research’. The first installation in the ‘No Place Like Home’ series, Temporary Urban Garden by Dr Ivana Wingham and in collaboration with Dr Roderick Lumsden IT consultant ...
No place like home: temporary urban garden
Moreton, A. (author) / Wingham, Ivana (author)
2009-11-02
Moreton , A & Wingham , I , No place like home: temporary urban garden , 2009 , Exhibition . < http://www.blueprintmagazine.co.uk/ >
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